CWL 257

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Enlightenment Lit and Culture

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Credit: 3 hours.

Same as ENGL 206. See ENGL 206.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Humanities – Lit & Arts

Cultural Studies - Western

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CWL 257 class schedule data for fall 2015
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	39525	Lecture-Discussion	P	11:00AM -12:15PM	TR	136 Davenport Hall	Nazar, H	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/24/15-12/09/15 Degree Notes: Literature and the Arts, and Western Compartv Cult course. Section Info: There certainly is no moment in history when the world suddenly ceased to be ?old? and became ?modern.? But Europe in the eighteenth century, during the period known as ?the Enlightenment,? witnessed unprecedented social, economic, cultural, and political changes that produced a giant leap towards the world we inhabit today. It was an age of revolution and of newfound faith in the dignity and rights of the individual, though these rights were by no means extended to all. It was an age of reason, of tremendous advances in science and technology, though reason was by no means the only altar at which so-called enlightened men and women worshipped: God and sentiment remained powerful forces in eighteenth-century European life. This course offers an introduction to the complex development called the Enlightenment by focusing on a small (but potent) selection of literary and non-literary works of the period, primarily from Britain, and to a lesser extent, from continental Europe. We will ask whether the Enlightenment lives up to its hype, how it anticipates our modern reality, and how it imagines the modern individual. Authors to be covered include Margaret Cavendish, Aphra Behn , John Locke, Rousseau, Voltaire, Adam Smith, Samuel Johnson, and Mary Wollstonecraft.